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Chris Stringer''s Homo Britannicus is the epic history of life in Britain, from man''s very first footsteps through to the present day.

When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals?

Chris Stringer takes us back to when it was so tropical we lived here alongside hippos, elephants and sabre-toothed tigers or to times so cold we hunted reindeer and mammoth, and to others even colder when we were forced to flee a wall of ice. Here is the incredible truth about our ancestors'' journey over millennia - and a glimpse of the future to see how it might continue.

''A beautiful book on a fascinating subject, written by a world authority''
  Richard Dawkins

''Superlative ... Pure stimulation from beginning to end''
  Bill Bryson

''Every chapter contains something new, and throws up a fresh location that deserves to become famous''
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Homo Britannicus

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
      Published 28 June 2007
      ISBN-13 9780141018133
      978-0141018133
      ISBN-10 0141018135
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      History Archaeology by period / region European history European history: medieval period, middle ages

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Chris Stringer''s Homo Britannicus is the epic history of life in Britain, from man''s very first footsteps through to the present day.

      When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals?

      Chris Stringer takes us back to when it was so tropical we lived here alongside hippos, elephants and sabre-toothed tigers or to times so cold we hunted reindeer and mammoth, and to others even colder when we were forced to flee a wall of ice. Here is the incredible truth about our ancestors'' journey over millennia - and a glimpse of the future to see how it might continue.

      ''A beautiful book on a fascinating subject, written by a world authority''
        Richard Dawkins

      ''Superlative ... Pure stimulation from beginning to end''
        Bill Bryson

      ''Every chapter contains something new, and throws up a fresh location that deserves to become famous''
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